The Final Four is this weekend, as college basketball does its best to hold off the oncoming doom of an overlong Major League Baseball season. It’s the culmination of a crazy season, a weirdness that’s been personified by the teams …

If Yahoo search trends determined the winner of the Final Four, the company says, VCU would beat Kentucky in the title game. Talk like that might lose Yahoo some users around these parts. That would mean the University of Kentucky …

It’s ratcheting up, that madness, that spring fever, that excitement that sends college basketball fans into an ink-and-paper bracket hysteria, trying to predict the unpredictable and who’s got the moxie to win it– wait – it’s not so ink and paper anymore.

Pausing for melodramatic over-the-top effect.